On the evening of Thursday, Jan. 29, in the crowded space of Literati Bookstore, author Jonathan Gleason read from his debut essay collection “Field Guide to Falling Ill” before sitting down in ...

Many books about illness turn sickness into a story. Something happens to the body, and then the body gets diagnosed. The body gets treated and, ideally, the reader is left with closure. “Field Guide ...

If a person has an "aggressive" prostate cancer with a Gleason score of 9, what does that mean? What's the outlook when it comes to survival rate and prognosis. Every cancer survivor is unique, of ...

The Gleason score reliably predicts lethal prostate cancer for up to 25 years after diagnosis. High-grade prostate cancers progress rapidly in the short term, while lower grade tumors can still lead ...